Family Portal Access
This section provides information about the Family Portal and instructions for generating Family Portal Access Codes, sending access codes to families via email, and resetting access codes if they are compromised.
About the Family Portal
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The Family Portal enables parents and guardians to view their students’ test results online. To access the Family Portal, the family needs an Access Code that is unique to their child. Access Codes are stored in TIDE. Depending on how their role is defined in TIDE, users can retrieve access codes in TIDE and relay them to families by email or other secure communication.
Access to the Family Portal continues indefinitely even if a student leaves the state, graduates, or is not re-enrolled for any other reason. If a student is deleted from TIDE, the student will still have access, unless access is specifically removed.
What Information Can Parents Find on the Family Portal?
The Family Portal includes the following information:
• A student’s Individual Score Report (ISR) with interpretive guides that can be downloaded and printed
• A glossary of assessment terms
• A list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) with answers
• Performance-level indicators and explanations of what they mean
• Resources for families to use with their students
How Can Parents Access the Family Portal?
Parents and guardians can access the Family Portal in one of three ways:
1. Visit the Family Portal https://fl-familyportal.cambiumast.com/#/ and enter a unique Access Code along with their child’s date of birth and first name.
2. Select a time-limited link delivered to parents/guardians via email to retrieve a unique Access Code that can then be entered at https://fl-familyportal.cambiumast.com/#/, as described above.
3. Select the auto-login link in the parent portal, supplied by the district’s Student Information System (SIS) provider.
Download, Share, and Reset Access Codes
To download Access Codes to add family email addresses: Generate Family Portal Access Codes
To email Access Codes to families: Email Family Portal Student Access Codes
To print Access Codes for students to take home: Print Family Portal Access Codes from Student Lists
To reset individual student's Access Codes if they are compromised: Reset Family Portal Access Codes
Set Up Family Portal Auto-Login Integration with SIS
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Cambium Assessment, Inc. (CAI) has developed a feature that allows a student’s parent or guardian to log in to the Family Portal directly from a district’s Student Information System (SIS). Once districts and SIS providers integrate this feature with their SIS, parents and guardians will be able to access their student’s reports with the click of a button, bypassing the Family Portal login screen where they would typically enter the student’s Access Code, date of birth, and first name.
Implementing the auto-login feature is easy and relies on an integration between the SIS and Family Portal that is simpler than that of the previously available SIS application programming interface (API). The following sections contain instructions for setting up this new feature; district technology personnel can perform the necessary tasks themselves or in coordination with their SIS vendor:
Retrieving Login Data from TIDE
TIDE permits authorized users to export all the required Family Portal login data into a single spreadsheet. The process for retrieving login data from TIDE is as follows:
1. First, select the Generate Access Code Template task from the Family Portal Access task group.
2. On the Generate Access Code Template page, conduct a search for the names of students whose login data should be exported. You can search for students by their institution, grade level, and other, more-specific criteria.
3. Select the relevant student records from the search results and download the Access Codes to Microsoft Excel. You can also choose to download the Access Codes for all names returned in the search results.
Importing Login Data into the SIS
The following student data elements must be imported into a district’s SIS to integrate with the Family Portal’s auto-login feature:
• The student’s Access Code as a unique, six-character alphanumeric code generated for each student record in TIDE
• The student’s date of birth as an eight-character string in MMDDYYYY format
• The student’s legal first name as recorded in TIDE with a maximum character limit of 100
Shown below is a sample Excel file exported from TIDE in which each of these data elements appears. The same elements should be imported into the SIS using whatever import process is customary for that system. The student’s last name, ID, and parent/guardian email address are also included in the export file, but these elements are not required to implement the auto-login feature.
Adding the Auto-Login Feature to the SIS
Once the required data has been imported, the auto-login button can be added to the SIS user interface. To implement the feature, technology personnel can add the form post reproduced below, which will send an HTTP post with the student’s login data to the Family Portal, requesting access to that student’s reports.
The accesscode, dateofbirth, and StudentFirstName values must be populated with valid data for each student, using the format outlined in the previous section.
<form method="POST"
action="https://api-familyportal.cambiumast.com/api/auth/autologin/texas target="_blank">
<input type="text" name="accesscode" value="AA12BB"/>
<input type="text" name="dateofbirth" value="MMDDYYYY"/>
<input type="text" name="name" value="StudentFirstName"/>
<button type="submit">Submit</button> </form>